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We consider the pricing problem of a seller with delayed price information. By using Lagrange duality, a dual problem is derived, and it is proved that there is no duality gap. This gives a characterization of the seller's price of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Kristina Rognlien Dahl

A latent bandit problem is one in which the learning agent knows the arm reward distributions conditioned on an unknown discrete latent state. The primary goal of the agent is to identify the latent state, after which it can act optimally.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Joey Hong , Branislav Kveton , Manzil Zaheer , Yinlam Chow , Amr Ahmed , Craig Boutilier

Poker is a challenging problem for artificial intelligence, with non-deterministic dynamics, partial observability, and the added difficulty of unknown adversaries. Modelling all of the uncertainties in this domain is not an easy task. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Finnegan Southey , Michael P. Bowling , Bryce Larson , Carmelo Piccione , Neil Burch , Darse Billings , Chris Rayner

We consider an interesting natural extension to the Parisian ruin problem under the assumption that the risk reserve dynamics are given by a spectrally negative L\'evy process. The distinctive feature of this extension is that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Duy Phat Nguyen , Konstantin Borovkov

This paper addresses the problem of unknown delays in adversarial multi-armed bandit (MAB) with multiple play. Existing work on similar game setting focused on only the case where the learner selects an arm in each round. However, there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Olusola T. Odeyomi

This paper investigates a class of games with large strategy spaces, motivated by challenges in AI alignment and language games. We introduce the hidden game problem, where for each player, an unknown subset of strategies consistently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Gon Buzaglo , Noah Golowich , Elad Hazan

Anonymous online business environments have a social dilemma situation in it. A dilemma on whether to cooperate or Defect. Defection by a buyer to seller and/or seller to buyer might give each a better profit at the cost of the loss of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Sanat Kumar Bista , Keshav P. Dahal , Peter I. Cowling , Bhadra Man Tuladhar

Can a probabilistic gambler get arbitrarily rich when all deterministic gamblers fail? We study this problem in the context of algorithmic randomness, introducing a new notion -- almost everywhere computable randomness. A binary sequence…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Laurent Bienvenu , Valentino Delle Rose , Tomasz Steifer

We study a model in which two players with opposing interests try to alter a status quo through instability-generating actions. We show that instability can be used to secure longer-term durable changes, even if it is costly to generate and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-03-14 César Barilla , Duarte Gonçalves

From the standpoint of game theory, dominoes is a game that has not received much attention (specially the variety known as draw). It is usually thought that this game is already solved, given general results in game theory. However, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Eduardo Espinosa-Avila , Francisco Hernandez-Quiroz

Repeated game has long been the touchstone model for agents' long-run relationships. Previous results suggest that it is particularly difficult for a repeated game player to exert an autocratic control on the payoffs since they are jointly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Dong Hao , Kai Li , Tao Zhou

In spatial games players typically alter their strategy by imitating the most successful or one randomly selected neighbor. Since a single neighbor is taken as reference, the information stemming from other neighbors is neglected, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-01 Xiaofeng Wang , Matjaz Perc , Yongkui Liu , Xiaojie Chen , Long Wang

We study a $K$-armed bandit with delayed feedback and intermediate observations. We consider a model where intermediate observations have a form of a finite state, which is observed immediately after taking an action, whereas the loss is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Emmanuel Esposito , Saeed Masoudian , Hao Qiu , Dirk van der Hoeven , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Yevgeny Seldin

We reveal an interesting convex duality relationship between two problems: (a) minimizing the probability of lifetime ruin when the rate of consumption is stochastic and when the individual can invest in a Black-Scholes financial market;…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2010-08-30 Erhan Bayraktar , Virginia R. Young

The multi-armed bandit is a mathematical interpretation of the problem a gambler faces when confronted with a number of different machines (bandits). The gambler wants to explore different machines to discover which machine offers the best…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Hazel Murray , David Malone

We study the computational complexity of the popular board game backgammon. We show that deciding whether a player can win from a given board configuration is NP-Hard, PSPACE-Hard, and EXPTIME-Hard under different settings of known and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-15 R. Teal Witter

In this paper a quantitative analysis of the ruin probability in finite time of discrete risk process with proportional reinsurance and investment of finance surplus is focused on. It is assumed that the total loss on a unit interval has a…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-12-14 Helena Jasiulewicz , Wojciech Kordecki

What is a finite-state strategy in a delay game? We answer this surprisingly non-trivial question and present a very general framework for computing such strategies: they exist for all winning conditions that are recognized by automata with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Martin Zimmermann

We consider delay differential equations with a polynomially distributed delay. We derive an equivalent system of delay differential equations, which includes just two discrete delays. The stability of the equivalent system and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Roland Pulch

We consider the adversarial multi-armed bandit problem under delayed feedback. We analyze variants of the Exp3 algorithm that tune their step-size using only information (about the losses and delays) available at the time of the decisions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 András György , Pooria Joulani